Acknowledgements This work would not have been possible without the help of many people. First of all I would like to thank Prof. Dr. Walter Gander for giving me the opportunity to do my Ph.D. thesis… (More)

We discuss the method of Cyclic Reduction for solving special systems of linear equations that arise when discretizing partial differential equations. In connection with parallel computations the… (More)

Today many high performance computers are reachable over some network. However, the access and use of these computers is often complicated. This prevents many users to work on such machines. The Goal… (More)

The use of computer algebra systems in a course on scientific computation is demonstrated. Various examples, such as the derivation of Newton’s iteration formula, the secant method, Newton–Cotes and… (More)